High Court directive to Madhya Pradesh, UPSC

June 9, 2010: The Hindu

Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State Government and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to keep one post vacant in the Indian Administration Service (IAS) cadre for the OBC category.

Orders in this regard were issued on Monday by a Bench of Justice R. C. Sinha and Justice Alok Aradhe on a petition filed by Vinita Sahu of Sagar, an OBC candidate for the post.

In her petition, Vinita sought the High Court’s direction to UPSC for considering her representation on caste status before allocation of posts to selected candidates.

The petitioner also said that she secured 134th rank as a general candidate in the Civil Services examinations conducted by UPSC in 2009-10 while the cut-off list was 131.

She further said that she comes under the OBC category but was not given the benefit of it by UPSC, which said that she comes under creamy layer.

As a result, she was considered a general candidate and allotted an Indian Police Service (IPS) seat instead of IAS, she said.